Hanbitsoft Savages Flagship. Like, Really.

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The Hellgate situation appears to be descending further into Hell. Hellgate Guru have translatedthis story in the Korean press where their Hanbitsoft are terribly mean about partners-in-Hellgate Flagship. “Selfish”? “Irresponsible”? You wouldn’t be surprised if they went on to say they smelt bad too. The reason for the rancour is that they claim while they tried to find a deal to keep Flagship going, the founding-fathers preferred to just sack all the staff. They claim to be making good progress in getting the rights to Hellgate, and are preparing a lawsuit against the founding directors of Flagship. Our industry analyst thinks: Hanbitsoft must fancy Flagship. If they start pulling Flagship’s pigtails, we’ll know for sure.

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Honestly speaking Hellgate would be in better hands with Hanbitsoft.
Here’s a game based on a very mature Korean model being completely mishandled by a company [Flagship] that has [self admittedly] very little experience in developing and maintaining this type of game model.
What makes people think that Hellgate subscribers and fans wouldn’t be better served by a Korean company?

I find it hard to take Hanbitsoft seriously when they say that the Flagship founders are “only looking for personal gain.” Roper, Schaefer, and co. paid for a month of their ex-employees salaries out of their own pockets – that’s the opposite of selfish. It sounds like Hanbitsoft made Flagship an offer that was less than desirable, and now they’re crying foul that their lowballing backfired.

As for what Hellgate would be like in their hands, who knows, but there is plenty of room for improvement.

Well, [indeed], if they were good enough to actually make it, and have it end up shoddy due to a premature release (usually caused by publishers) then they were certainly the most fit to maintain and keep updating the game also…